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The debate between Sheep and Grain: bibliography

Print sources used

Alster, Bendt, and Vanstiphout, Herman L.J., "Lahar and Ashnan. Presentation and Analysis of a Sumerian Disputation", Acta Sumerologica 9 (1987), 1-43: commentary, composite text, translation

Bottéro, J., "La "tenson" et la réflexion sur les choses en Mésopotamie", in Reinink, G. and Vanstiphout, Herman L.J., (eds.), Dispute Poems and Dialogues in the Ancient and Medieval Near East (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, 42), Peeters: Leuven, 1991, 7-22: commentary

Gragg, Gene B., Sumerian Dimensional Infixes. Butzon & Bercker/Neukirchener: Kevelaer/Neukirchen-Vluyn, 1973, pp. 51, 72: composite text, translation (ll. 181, 188)

Vanstiphout, Herman L.J., "A double entendre Concerning Uttu", NABU (1990) No. 57: commentary

Vanstiphout, Herman L.J., "Lore, Learning and Levity in the Sumerian Disputations: A Matter of Form, or Substance?", in Reinink, G. and Vanstiphout, Herman L.J. (ed.s), Dispute Poems and Dialogues in the Ancient and Medieval Near East (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, 42), Peeters: Leuven, 1991, 23-46: commentary

Vanstiphout, Herman L.J., "Sumerian Canonical Compositions. C. Individual Focus. 5. Disputations", in Hallo, William W. (ed.), The Context of Scripture, I: Canonical Compositions from the Biblical World Brill: Leiden/New York/Köln, 1997, 575-588. Pp. 575-578: translation, commentary

Vanstiphout, Herman L.J., "The Akkadian word for grain and La¾ar and Ashnan", NABU (1989) No. 98: commentary

Vanstiphout, Herman L.J., "The Banquet Scene in the Sumerian Debate Poems", Res Orientales 4 (1992), 37-63: commentary

Vanstiphout, Herman L.J., "The Mesopotamian Debate Poems. A General Presentation. Part II. The Subject", Acta Sumerologica 14 (1992), 339-367: commentary

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